CSS Flexible Box Layout: Advanced layouts with flexbox

CSS Flexible Box Layout: Advanced layouts with flexbox

The defining aspect of the flexbox is the ability to alter its items, width, and/or height to best fill the available space on any display device. A flex container expands its items to fill the available free space or shrinks them to prevent overflow.

Problems with float layout

  • Difficulty with containment - If our site has some unpredictable content then it becomes challenging and at the same time tedious to maintain the layout with floats.
  • Source order dependence - The layout is HTML source dependent, so it becomes difficult to alter the layout for different media queries for responsive sites.
  • Equal Height Columns issues - If we have 2-3 columns with different content in them, and we need them to be of equal height irrespective of the content in it, then it becomes very difficult.<